From the first owner, a professional photographer in USA who bought it new, here is a super rare, authentic and very first batch black paint Leica M3 double stroke outfit. This is the 2nd Black Paint M3 camera ever made and the lowest number ever appeared or offered on the market so farThe camera has earlier features such as early style rewind knob and four holding screws for the top plate. More exciting, on camera 746572 is the factory conversion into Leicavit-MP coupling. Technically a difficult issue, it was mostly carried out in the way of implanting an MP/M2 style frame counter. On camera 746572 the automatically resetting frame counter was kept with the help of a Leica M4-sytle counter resetting mechanism. Very unusual and probably unique Black Paint M3/MP camera. The camera comes with three very early black paint lenses with both lens caps. The first lens is an early Summicron-M 2/5cm (#1587297) in brass mount with a factory conversion: the infinity lock for the focus ring was taken off so the owner, who was a professional photographer, could use it without the blocking of the lens. The second is a very rare Summilux-M 1.4/35mm (#1730613) without the spectacles and with chrome front ring, one of the most sought after M lenses. The third one is Summilux-M 1.4/50mm which comes from the first batch with brass mount. The design of its knurl on the focusing barrel is very special and can only be found on a few other veyr early Summilux and also some of the Summilux prototypes (i.e .Summarit 1.4/50mm). This camera is extremely rare because it is the second one of the first batch of only six black painted M3 and it is still retaining the original four screw top plate. The camera was authenticated by Mr. Ottmar Michaely andM r. Lars Netopil.